Awards

Jamie Benn Awards

Art Ross Trophy

Season

Team

2014-2015

Dallas Stars

Bio

Jamie Benn Bio

Ranked the fourth-best player by the NHL Network for the 2016-17 season, Benn is a perennial All-Star and winner of the 2015 Art Ross Trophy. Though he has established himself in recent years as one of the League's most potent scorers and recognizable figures, he has spent a lot of his hockey career being overlooked.

He was ignored by major junior teams as a 16- and 17-year-old growing up in Victoria, British Columbia; he had to wait until the fifth round (No. 129) before the Dallas Stars called his name during the 2007 NHL Draft, and he was left off the list of invitees to Team Canada's orientation camp for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Ranked the fourth-best player by the NHL Network for the 2016-17 season, Benn is a perennial All-Star and winner of the 2015 Art Ross Trophy. Though he has established himself in recent years as one of the League's most potent scorers and recognizable figures, he has spent a lot of his hockey career being overlooked.

He was ignored by major junior teams as a 16- and 17-year-old growing up in Victoria, British Columbia; he had to wait until the fifth round (No. 129) before the Dallas Stars called his name during the 2007 NHL Draft, and he was left off the list of invitees to Team Canada's orientation camp for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Team Canada eventually corrected its oversight, adding Benn just ahead of the start of the Games. Good thing, too, because Benn scored the only goal of the game in the semifinal victory against Team USA that sent Canada to the gold medal game, where it defeated Sweden 3-0.

Benn has been a household name even outside of hockey circles ever since, earning NHL All-Star berths for his play during the 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons and ranking in the top 10 in the league in goals scored in each of those years, including a third-place finish with 41 goals in 2015-16.

Benn finished among the top-10 point producers in the NHL as well during each of those seasons, a run that included a second-place finish with 89 points in 2015-16, when Benn also finished tied for second in power-play goals with 17.

But Benn has proven to be more than just a goal-scorer and point-producer. He led the Stars with 120 hits during the 2014-15 season and with 156 in 2015-16, and ranked first among Stars forwards in blocked shots with 59 in 2013-14 and second with 55 in 2015-16.

Not bad for a player who had to wait until after he was drafted to make the jump to the major junior ranks. Even then, Benn still had to ask for a tryout before catching on with Kelowna in the Western Hockey League for the start of the 2007-08 season.

Benn immediately impressed, scoring 147 points (79 goals) in 107 games over two seasons to earn a promotion straight from the junior ranks to the NHL for the start of the 2009-10 season. That season ended with Benn scoring 22 goals and 19 assists and earning a seventh-place finish in the balloting for the Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year.

In 2010-11, Benn scored 22 goals, and he increased that mark to 26 goals for the 2011-12 season.

Benn was named the sixth captain in Dallas franchise history prior to the 2013-14 season, and on July 15, 2016 he signed an eight-year contract extension.